Strategic Organizational and Environmental Audit – Using the latest online survey technology, we assess organizational issues using one of the following tools to find out what you are doing well, and what needs attention (as perceived by you, your executive team, your employees, and even your community if you want to do that extensive of a study) :  The Organizational Performance Review, The Police Organizational Performance Review, the SKEPTIC Method of environmental assessment, or a custom-designed tool.

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Optimizing the Executive Team – Team Building Workshop:  Identify team and team member strengths, styles and leadership competencies, and develop a plan for ongoing leadership development and team performance improvement.  Clarify the team’s vision, values, and roles and goals for each member of the team.  Learn and agree about problem-solving and decision-making processes so you are all using the same preferred models.  Learn to have more productive meetings, correct course goals/direction, report successes, and celebrate results.  A custom-designed version of this part of the Optimization process is done in the POST Team Building Workshop, depending on the unique needs of each agency and team.

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Optimize the Strategic Plan Design – Review previous strategic initiatives, conduct an internal and external environmental scan, prioritize and target new strategic imperatives, and gain organization and community-wide support for your new plan.

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Optimize Strategic Plan Execution – Learn to identify, prioritize and execute the 3-5 most critical strategic imperatives in your organization and community.  Learn to set goals for the remaining strategic initiatives that are important but not imperative.  Report and be accountable for only the top 3-5 imperatives and avoid the embarrassment of “over-promising and under-delivering.” Assemble a change team of leaders who have the credibility, competence and caring to make change happen even in the face of skepticism and negativity inside or outside your organization.  This process includes the development of implementation teams on the front line of the organization:  This is the most difficult but most effective part of the execution process.

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Optimize Meetings — Meet Monthly to Review Progress and Correct Course.  This has proven, in more than 120 organizations, to be the single most important factor in predicting and ensuring success of strategic change and team development initiatives.  Our studies indicate that organizations that have this special kind of monthly review meeting achieve higher than a 90% implementation rate of their strategic plan initiatives.  Organizations that skip even one monthly meeting often have implementation rates below 40%.  You will learn how to conduct this kind of highly productive meeting.

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Optimize Health, Wellness and Morale – These go hand in hand and reduce stress and absenteeism and turnover costs. Proven methods from Epiphany360.io and other sources can give you a critical edge against the accumulation of stress and increase your and your team’s performance, resilience and morale.

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Optimize to Blow Out Bureaucracy – Identify ways to immediately lower costs by removing unnecessary work, policies, reports, and approval processes from the organization.  Gain more clarity and simplicity in all your operations.  Use Continuous Improvement processes to do this on an ongoing basis and free up valuable time and money to accomplish higher priority objectives.